An iMWiL! EXCLUSIVE: Book Excerpt: POLICE FORCED: The Case of Earl Faison, By Lawrence Hamm (with Annette M. Alston)

Thursday night, the People’s Organization for Progress, a New Jersey progressive activist group, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the police killing of a Black man named Earl Faison. He was killed on April 11, 1999 by a revenge-hungry, white-majority police force in Orange, New Jersey, because the police were angry by the killing of…

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Police Brutality is a Politically Protected Reality

Submitted to iMWiL! by Africa Jackson Quick question. Why do cowards get to take sick days off from basic accountability? Alonzo Smith is one of dozens of Black people subjected to blatant torture by police under Richard Daley’s watch. He filed a lawsuit in 2016 because the ‘enhanced interrogation’ tactics officers used on him more…

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